Browsing by Subject "East African Community"
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A citizen sociolinguistics appraisal of Kiswahili as a tool for social integration in the East African Community
(Makerere University, 2022-05-04)This sociolinguistic study investigated the use of Kiswahili as a lived practice among ordinary citizens in the East African Community (EAC), specifically, in Busia and Namanga border towns. The aim of the study was to ... -
Comparing the performance of Uganda’s intra-East African Community trade and other trading blocs: A gravity model analysis.
(EPRC, 2013)This paper examines factors that determine Uganda’s trade flows and specifically compares the impact and performance of the different trade blocs on Uganda’s trade patterns and flows. The empirical question is whether ... -
Cross-border mobility and development in East African Community: a Case study of Kyotera District (Uganda) and Missenyi District (Tanzania)
(Makerere University, 2023-01-04)Guided by the Neoliberalism theory of International Relations, the study mainly aimed at examining how mobility across the Tanzania-Uganda border was influencing the development in the East African Community. It also ... -
Determinants of access to formal credit by small and medium scale enterprises in the East African Community
(Makerere University, 2022-04)The East African Community has registered a proliferation of financial institutions. These are widely spread across the region and aim at increasing access to financial services. However, access to credit is still limited ... -
Determinants of Uganda’s export competitiveness in the East African Community, 2000-2015
(Makerere University, 2017-11)The main primary concern of policy makers and macroeconomic analysts is what factors promote or inhibit the flow of Uganda’s exports. Therefore, this study was prompted by the need to understand these factors and to what ... -
Determinants of Uganda’s regional trade: Uganda’s performance under the East African Community (EAC)
(Makerere University, 2022-11)The research set out to examine the Determinants of Uganda's regional trade with a special focus on Uganda's Performance under the East African Community (EAC). The study utilized the gravity model which predicts that ... -
Effect of tax evasion on economic growth in the East African Community
(Makerere University, 2022-12)This study examined the effect of tax evasion on economic growth in the East African Community for the period 2001 to 2017. The study adopted the theoretical framework advanced by Bekoe (2013) to examine the effect of ... -
Food security and the East African Community
(Makerere University, 2022-12-23)Despite the institutional pursuits to ensure food security in the region, the EAC is still engulfed in a pool of food security problems. The study examined the capacity of the existing institutional framework to ensure ... -
The impact of macro and institutional factors on bank liquidity: a case of the East African Community (EAC): a panel data analysis
(Makerere University, 2022-12)This study aims at exploring the impact of Macro and Institutional factors on Bank Liquidity within the East African Community. Banks are required to have a liquidity ratio of not less than 20% threshold to be able to meet ... -
Limitations on solid waste management law in Uganda: A case study of Kampala City Council
(Makerere University, 2008)The nature of handling and disposing of solid waste is still very poor in the country, with particular focus on Kampala. The study therefore attends the legal aspects of handling and disposing of waste, and looks into ... -
Non-tariff barriers to trade in the East African Community: the case of road-transportation costs between Mombasa and Kigali through the Northern transport corridor
(Makerere University, 2009-09)In the last three decades, African countries have pursued regional trade agreements as a way of accelerating their economic development. Likewise, it is expected that the current regional economic integration process into ... -
Non-tariff barriers to trade in the East African Community: the case of road-transportation costs between Mombasa and Kigali through the Northern Transport Corridor
(2009-09)In the last three decades, African countries have pursued regional trade agreements as a way of accelerating their economic development. Likewise, it is expected that the current regional economic integration process into ... -
The operation of mutual recognition agreements vis-à-vis an East African legislation on cross border legal practice : the Ugandan perspective
(Makerere University, 2020)The study examines the operation of Mutual Recognition Agreements vis-à-vis having a single legislation to govern cross-border legal practice to wit, the East African Community Cross Border Legal Practice Bill of 2014. The ... -
Public debt and economic growth in East African Community : the role of corruption
(Makerere University, 2019-09)Having observed a number of research findings indicating that public debt negatively affects economic growth, this study set out to examine whether the impact of public debt is mediated by the level of corruption in the ... -
The quest for an effective legal and institutional framework for competition law in the East African Community: the journey this far
(Makerere University, 2022-12-23)This paper underscores the importance of Competition law; explores factors hindering adoption of an effective legal and institutional framework on competition law within the EAC region, and; provides recommendations on the ... -
Regional integration : problems and prospects of the East African Community
(Makerere University, 2004)This study highlights the challenges facing the East African Community, established by the three East African Countries. The study was conducted against a background of regional integration of the East African countries ...